Return Of Gothic

In the late 18th century and the beginning of 19th century, there appeared an important literary trend named Gothic as a part of Romanism. The advent of Gothic has a typical background of the Industrial Revolution as well as the big social shifts that came along with it. The Gothic novels were apt to depict the supernatural phenomena and portray the conflicts between Good and Evil in a terrible and erotic ways, hence the title of Dark Romanism. Quite a number of writers in the West followed its suit even in the wake of the short Gothic Decades. Today, the dark style still finds its expression in the growing vogue of magic and science fictional movies with the Lord of the Rings Trilogy in the lead. Putting in comparison the life of this leading novel's author, J. R. R Tolkien along with the milieu of the creation of the trilogy as well as its plots and the characterization and the counterparts of Gothic novels, we can find evident similarities between them and the plain impact on the novel from Gothicism. It is within the framework of Gothicism that the novel presents the persistent religious issues and technophobia that most Gothic novels lay bare. Thus the thesis concludes that the irrationalism develops side by side with the rationalism that reached a position of dominance with the progress of modern science and technology, and that this development of irrationalism cannot be ignored.